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Child health psychology : a biopsychosical perspective / Julie M. Turner-Cobb.

With a perspective designed to both inform and to challenge, this stimulating textbook introduces students to the central relevance and many applications of child health psychology.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Author: Turner-Cobb, Julie M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014.
Subjects:
Pediatrics > Psychological aspects.
Sick children > Psychology.
Child psychology.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. an Introduction To Child Health And Well-Being
  • 1. Introduction: What Is Child Health Psychology?
  • 2. Defining Health, Illness and Well-Being
  • 3. Research Methods and Ethical Issues
  • 4. The Influence of Prenatal Exposure to Stress
  • 5. The Experience of Stress During Childhood
  • Part Two. The Experience of Acute and Chronic Illness During Childhood
  • 6. The Experience of Acute Illness in Childhood
  • 7. The Experience of Chronic Illness in Childhood
  • 8. Terminal Illness and Survivorship Issues
  • 9. The Experience of Pain in Childhood
  • 10. The Experience of Parental Illness and Death
  • 11. Summary and the Way Ahead.
  • Part One. an Introduction To Child Health And Well-Being
  • 1. Introduction: What Is Child Health Psychology?
  • Definition of child health psychology
  • The psychosocial context of child health
  • The developmental context of child health
  • The mind-body link: from medieval to moder-day views
  • The mind-body connection in modern times
  • Health-related behaviour and social cognition models
  • The changing face of health threats
  • Communicating health
  • 2. Defining Health, Illness and Well-Being
  • Definitions of health and illness
  • Stress and coping: chronic versus acute stress
  • The relevance of cognitive and social development in health and illness
  • How can psychosocial factors influence physical health?
  • Biological responses to stress
  • How can the immune system be influenced by HPA axis regulation?
  • Psychobiological theories of stress and coping
  • Resiliency factors and individual differences
  • 3. Research Methods and Ethical Issues
  • Measurement of psychosocial factors
  • Mixed methods
  • Psychobiological research methods
  • Immune markers of stress
  • Neurotransmitter and endocrine markers of stress
  • Measuring health outcome in children
  • The laboratory/experimental research setting
  • Naturalistic settings and field research
  • Ethical issues and communication in health research with children
  • 4. The Influence of Prenatal Exposure to Stress
  • Terms, definitions and developmental periods in pregnancy
  • The normal basal maternal endocrine environment during pregnancy
  • The stress response during pregnancy
  • Effects of prenatal stress on the fetus in utero
  • Effects of prenatal stres on birth outcome
  • Effects of prenatal stress on infant and child development
  • Prenatal stress effects in the adolescent years and into adulthood
  • Interventions to reduce prenatal stress and subsequent effects
  • The maternal perspective and a link to immune effects
  • 5. The Experience of Stress During Childhood
  • The Experience of Stress in Healthy Children
  • The Contributions of Temperament, Individual Difference and quality of childcare
  • Effects of severe or toxic stress, including post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Family Environment and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress
  • Health in adulthood and across the lifespan
  • Communicating stress
  • The longer-term outlook and opportunities for intervention.
  • Part Two. The Experience of Acute and Chronic Illness During Childhood
  • 6. The Experience of Acute Illness in Childhood
  • Defining acute illness
  • The relevance of illness cognitions in acute childhood illness
  • Coping with acute illness in childhood
  • Medical procedures and hospitalization in acute childhood illness
  • 7. The Experience of Chronic Illness in Childhood
  • Defining chronic illness
  • The prevalence of chronic illness
  • The impact of chronic illness: the stress context
  • The relevance of illness cognitions in chronic childhood illness
  • Coping and adaptation in chronic childhood illness
  • Parental coping in chronic childhood illness
  • Interventions in chronic childhood illness
  • Medical procedures and hospitalization in chronic childhood illness
  • 8. Terminal Illness and Survivorship Issues
  • ildhood palliative care and terminal illness
  • The Challenge of Surviving Childhood Illness
  • Physical, medical or late effects in the survival of childhood illness
  • The psychosocial experience in the survival of childhood illness
  • Psychosocial interventions for survivors of childhood cancer
  • Implications for the life-course perspective
  • 9. The Experience of Pain in Childhood
  • The biopsychosocial approach to the experience of pain
  • The pain experience in children and analgesic management of pain
  • The prevalence of pain and disability in children
  • Cognitive, behavioural and emotional factors in coping with pain
  • The role of early life pain experience on subsequent pain
  • Psychosocial interventions in acute and chronic pain
  • 10. The Experience of Parental Illness and Death
  • The child as carer
  • Coping and adjustment: the impact of caregiving on the young carer
  • Interventions to lessen the negative impacts on young carers
  • Dealing with issues of death and dying
  • Bereavement services for children
  • 11. Summary and the Way Ahead
  • Summary of Health Risks and Resiliency Factors
  • Promoting and Maintaining Health
  • Psychosocial factors and issues in child health not mentioned
  • The role of health psychology in future child health.

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